Take a couple of minutes to read this one through and then watch the TEDx video. Occasionally, I wondered if a few of my clients weren’t living out synaesthesia simply because how they contextualized professed symptoms.

I’ve covered TEDx talks in previous posts. TEDx are locally organised events with the theme of technology, education and design. The videos feature talks given at TEDx conferences and are generated at a prodigious rate. This TEDx talk is by Wendy Lampen, who talks about her experience of Asperger Syndrome. Lampen also has a twitter account and a blog.

Lampen is courageous in talking openly about her experiences. What is very interesting is the way Lampen describes her sensory experiences and in particular synaesthesia. In synaesthesia a person will perceive stimuli coming from one sensory modality as if it came from another sensory modality e.g seeing noise or hearing colour. Lampen gives many examples of this experience. Lampen tells us how her experiences affect how she makes meaning of the world around her, of her own self-awareness and how…

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Before 1999 I was active in mental health doing assessments, emergency interventions, psychotherapy, domestic violence group treatment, and consulting in the foster care system. Rapidly, in 1999 I was lovingly shoved in disability because of temporal lobe epilepsy. Then, in June of 2001 my left temporal lobe was chucked into a trashcan. Since then, I have been playing at reconfiguring the who I had been. I just have too many spare parts still strewn across the floor.